The position involves providing care for mammals, reptiles, birds, and fish. It is necessary to be familiar with the animals' characteristics, needs, and behavior and possess skill in observing, handling, and controlling them. Different aspects of the WG-4 and WG-5 animal caretaker's position are cited under the categories of general description,…

A review of systems engineering concepts as applied to training programs at Army training schools was conducted. It was concluded that through systems engineering, the programs are being reoriented toward actual job requirements, reducing the "nice-to-know" and focusing on the "need-to-know." Since the programs are being constructed by personnel…

Report of research accomplished to aid U.S. Army Infantry School in its systems engineering of Infantry Officers Advanced Course curriculum is given. Focus is on identification of knowledge and skills and study of thought processing of battalion commander and his four principal staff officers. Survey of these officer activities was conducted in…

Administrator salary programs based on job content assessments or job evaluations can be more acceptable to the public than programs linked to teacher pay. (IRT)

Describes a step-by-step method for analyzing faculty workload which the author notes can determine exactly how a faculty member's time is spent and whether the hours available for teaching equal the hours required for teaching. Suggested uses for the method are noted, e.g., organizing the total work force based on desired curriculum changes. (SH)

The article identifies roles that co-workers have assumed in providing support to employees with handicaps including validating instructional strategies, collecting subjective evaluations, implementing training procedures, collecting social comparison information, and maintaining behavior in the context of actual employment. (Author/DB)

Evaluated methods for selecting respondents who would respond accurately to items on a job-analysis questionnaire. One method involved obtaining from employees measures that assessed background, performance, and organizational information. A second method involved collecting job-analysis data from all potential job-analysis respondents and…

Outlines issues pertaining to possible sex bias in job evaluation procedures and reviews relevant research. Gives attention to possible sex bias in job analysis procedures, choice and weighting of factors, and reliability and validity issues. Discusses future research needs, particularly reliability and validity aspects of job evaluation…

Showed that reliabilities in the .50 range can be obtained when raters rule out only 15-20% of the items on the Position Analysis Questionnaire as "Does Not Apply" and respond randomly to the remainder. (Author/ABB)

The authors stress the role of the multidisciplinary team in vocational rehabilitation, particularly the industrial engineer, in performing job analysis and workplace design to accommodate disabled persons in industry. Steps to effective job adaptation are charted, and methods of job analysis are discussed. (Author/MC)

Questions the observed correlation between job experts and naive raters using the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ); and conducts a replication of the Smith and Hakel study (1979) with college students (N=39). Concluded that PAQ ratings from job experts and college students are not equivalent and therefore are not interchangeable. (LLL)

Job task analyses provide a link between job performance and examination content. This paper describes a methodology that uses Item Response Theory to place job task analysis data on an equal interval scale that allows for quantitative comparisons between tasks and provides a method for quantifying a test blueprint. An actual analysis was…

A rationale is presented for adequately defining and explaining to screened job applicants the tasks he will face, personal content of jobs and the personal relationships expected. The benefits to organizations and individuals from mutually spelling out expectations and matching individual with job are detailed. (BB)

Judgement Analysis was the instrument used to assess firemen's attitudes toward leadership roles; five tables of statistical data were presented (BB)

An attempt to analyze job functions an instructional technologist performs in order to develop training programs. (AK)